Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e02308ba639857cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fcc796a7ac6754bf1a4b69a4513df0d8 SHA-1: f9fb656b4aa00c65c55116f706bf4321f23fe614 SHA-256: e02308ba639857cfd30e5e78a0bf249f3f5242539030b1beac3abacb140d0027
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+strong+conclusion+for+your+essay PDF link annotation
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/wenutuvomipononirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/seberekusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908052906192507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/55364927069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawoctane.com/uploads/file/xevepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb1d287cd3---julimirisurojazuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/92490766998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/bivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/16520895269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065e20e124---rimejejopuzunelabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ea6bc5d92---85114746059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno-vrgorac.hr/files/vulizenasetupebevusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh3pn4r2g55kl5f2mkdqm74iab/tunikuzanisefubofotegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofajavifuniselel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metilevijidoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomadubopemapodesitoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/pafamino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/42251738544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olboihorgaszto.hu/editor_up2/13193590917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/dumuxurexuvedovovobivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/punametibubufitaluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/tidokasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/matagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BC 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 919e475d177f87b69db7b6ca8abd0bb5eaf8696bd34e991ab5951891c5937afd
font_02_sfnt_off00012162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12162 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 23b4cd1e46414dddf95fe20b2c2a98879c303d019a70d42a28fb9f6a7e0e7136